I'm popping mail from the old netmail.home.com account and the new
cox.net address without problems. I've kept on monitoring the old
address in case something useful comes through. Haven't had a problem
other than their cox.net servers being maxed out from time to time, or
so it seems.
On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 09:50, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Thanks Victor for your reply,
> However so far its not working. I can ping both mail and
> netmail.home.com but I get "could not connect to mail". (oh well back to
> cox tech support). BTW mozilla (my *real* mail tool) has multiple
> personalities <g>. So many people asked for it that I was suprised at
> the backlash we got from Netscape 4.x users who _liked_ the profile
> method. Oh well can't please everyone.
>
> Carl P.
>
> On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 00:52, Victor Odhner wrote:
> > Absolutely. I just switch back and forth.
> > Just use "mail" as both your POP and SMTP
> > server names. If this doesn't work, you
> > can POP in from anywhere using netmail.home.com,
> > I think.
> >
> > My mail client is Netscape 4.7. My method is
> > clunky because Netscape only allows a profile
> > to have one POP server defined. You are
> > using Evolution, which hopefully accepts
> > multiple POP servers.
> >
> > (This transition is part of why Cox recommended
> > Outlook Express, which allows you to have
> > multiple personalities at the same time.)
> >
> > When I want to see if there's anything but spam
> > left in my @Home account, I just do the following
> > with Netscape 4.7. You should be able to use this
> > to deduce how to do it with Evolution.
> >
> > Edit / Preferences / Mail & Newsgroups
> > Edit my pop server, set it to "mail"
> > Type "mail" also in my SMTP server
> > OK
> >
> > Now I ask Netscape to get my new messages.
> > They load into my same inbox, which is nice.
> >
> > NOTE -- I do not change my "identity".
> > But if I'm using the mail / mail servers,
> > and want to unsubscribe from a mailing list,
> > then I need to change my "identity" to
> > vodhner@home.com when sending the unsubscribe
> > message, then change it back.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Vic
> >
> > Carl Parrish wrote:
> > >
> > > Alright update for my DHCP problems with cox. I gave up on calling them
> > > and sent an email telling them my problems and that I thought I may need
> > > to have my MAC address reset. The next morining I got a replay where
> > > they said they needed to "reprovision" me (???). Anyways after they did
> > > it I was able to get an IP address. And with the exception of the
> > > network just going out on me for a few mins here and there its been a
> > > rather good change over. *Except* I thought I would still have access to
> > > my @home address. I switched everything over on cox end but I assumed
> > > that either all my @home mail would be forwarded to my new address or I
> > > would still be able to pop the old account. But I can't seem to get to
> > > my old mail server and its deff not being forwarded. Anyone have any
> > > idea's how I can get mail sent to my old account?
> > >
> > > Carl P.
> > >
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> > --
> >
> >
> > Let me be a part of your solution:
> > http://www.newearth.org/~victor/resume.html
> > -- or --
> > http://members.cox.net/vodhner/
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